Higher Ed, Research & Learning
For years, I have been writing about the decline of public education in the United States. The political power of…
Sixty-three years after Martin Luther King Jr. declared that ‘the goal of America is freedom,’ his nephew reflects on the holiday that embodies that ideal.
The abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass is known for many things, but perhaps among the most significant is his views on education’s relationship to slavery. Douglass himself was born into slav...
Compendium of links to my writings relevant the holiday celebrating the abolition of slavery.
Though the Fourth of July is less than a month away, the 250th anniversary of American independence has been met with overwhelming ambivalence. I suspect that is because Americans no longer feel we ar...
Calling Kamala Harris. Both Democrats and Republicans have often criticized the former Vice President for her propensity to create “word…
There’s a reason the groups most valued by progressives—people of color, the poor, residents of the ‘global South’—want to migrate to America, writes Coleman Hughes.
When a student is in crisis, the hardest problems are easier to solve when someone already knows their story, and trust is already there. The heart of New York City’s Every Child and Family is Known ...
Vice President JD Vance. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Harvey Fite spent 40 years building one of America's great works of art with no plans, no collaborators, and no interest in either one, writes Josh Code. When a neighbor boy asked if he could place a ...
Three people silhouetted in profile, surrounded by vibrant colors and shapes.
Uri Berliner was a teenager the last time the Knicks won the NBA championship. Now, having just turned 70, he reflects on what the team means to New York City.
A 2015 law bars the president from lifting sanctions on Iran until Congress has reviewed any nuclear agreement. The Trump administration is lifting them anyway, writes Jack Goldsmith.
Iran fizzles, UFC pyrotechnics pop, Ozempic brings us closer to peace, Meta fixes its snacks, and more!
From Craghtten v. U.S., decided Wednesday by the Ninth Circuit (Judges Kenneth Lee, Gabriel Sanchez, and Holly Thomas): Isaac Craghtten—a… The post Guns, Aliens, Indians, Registration Numbers, and Joh...
A guest post from Elliott Wainwright.
Matt Mahan
6/19/1992: New York v. U.S. is decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: June 19, 1992 appeared first on Reason.com.
A man in a gun store pulls a semiautomatic handgun from a holster.
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley tells the story of early America's "African poetess."